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Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
Postgraduate | GRF-EHR701 | 2022
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Meet the stakeholders who make up the employment relationship. Analyse human resource’s role in managing these relationships. Explore performance and reward management concepts. Juxtapose employee unions with employer associations.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject, you should be able to:
1.1 Identify and understand the interests of the actors who constitute the employment relationship
1.2 Identify and explain the key elements involved with managing the employment relationship
1.3 Critically appreciate the contributions that HR and IR theoretical paradigms make to understanding the world of employment and work
1.4 Understand the role of the HR professional and the HR function in organisations
- This subject is divided in to three modules:
- People at work
- - Introduction to the course,
- - Industrial Relations and Human Resources,
- - Shifting Paradigms: HRM from a historic and economic perspective.
- Employment regulation
- - Industrial Relations Systems,
- - Unions and Employer Associations,
- - Employee Voice,
- - Work Health and Safety.
- Human resource management
- - Recruitment and Selection,
- - Learning and Development,
- - Managing Employee Performance,
- - The Realities of Work and Course Review.
This subject examines up-to-date theory and practice related to the management of human resources and employment relations in the 21st-century. Issues and challenges related to institutional conditions that affect employment relationship factors are canvassed. The global, knowledge intensive context, characterised by the blurring of employment boundaries and evolving organisational forms, will provide a backdrop for the content analysis.
- Professional Practice Options Paper (20%)
- Essay (30%)
- Written Assignment (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE